The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

WAR WITH THE APACHiES.
Obedient to the wishes and commands of the Jesuits, the
natives were induced to venture upon soil outside of their
boundaries, and thus incurred the enmity of a large and
powerful tribe of native Indians, who inhabited the country
north of, and adjoining, their own.
The adventurous spirit of the Spaniards, as well as their
avarice, manifested itself in so many ways, that the Apaches
were roused to resistance, as well as to a desire to punish the
invaders.
It was not, however, until the year 1680, that the Apaches
made any open demonstrations of hostile intentions; but
they then attacked the Spanish settlements in such overwhelming numbers, that resistance was useless, and the
missionaries were obliged to flee for their lives. Gathering
together such spoils as they could take with them, they
abandoned their mission settlements, leaving the people to
carry out the unequal contest alone, and bear the brunt of
the burden which the cowardly Spaniards had, by their culpable avarice, incited. Again and again did they attempt
to return, being extremely loth to yield the rich harvest of
gold and silver annually received as tribute front the unsuspecting, natives, who still remained friendly to, and allies
with, the men who had told them of their God, and taught
them that they might extinguish the sacred flame that for
generations had been kept burning upon their altars, ded;cated to the unknown God.
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